Where have all the bullocks gone? It should have been a big story but the Indian media does not seem to have noticed. Today, if you travel through any of India’s prosperous districts, you will very seldom see a bullock cart or a bull ploughing a field and no bulls circle any Persian wheel any longer. Over the past few decades, they have nearly all been replaced by tractors, trucks or pump sets. A recent report from the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal shows that the share of draught animals for farm power on Indian farms declined from 44
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